Christians Meeting Hindus: An Analysis and Theological Critique of the Hindu-Christian Encounter in India"With rare exceptions, serious intentional, reflective and sustained inter-faith encounter is a novel and recent enterprise. This book looks in detail at one such encounter - the intentional recent Hindu-Christian dialogue in India - and asks why and how the practice of dialogue came to replace previous attitudes of confrontation and monologue (especially on the part of Christians). Unlike many other works in the area of inter-faith studies, this work combines both descriptive detail of the actual encounter and critical theological analysis of the strengths and weakness of the dialogue model."--BOOK JACKET. |
Contents
The Path to Dialogue in India | 1 |
Continuing Christian Reflection | 13 |
PD Devanandan and Recent Protestant Initiatives | 21 |
E Further Catholic Initiatives in Dialogue | 27 |
F Comment | 37 |
B Formal Dialogue | 53 |
The Definition of Dialogue | 60 |
The Conditions for Dialogue | 73 |
Dialogue and Mission | 192 |
Christology as the Justification | 209 |
Christ and the Fulfilment of the Religions | 216 |
E Christ as Actively Present in Hinduism | 224 |
G Cosmic Christology and Dialogue | 232 |
Christocentrism | 240 |
Towards an Indian Christological | 265 |
Avatara and History | 273 |
E The Results of Dialogue | 82 |
F Comment | 88 |
A Understanding and the Reduction of Tension | 94 |
The Challenges of Modernity and Postmodernity | 105 |
G Common or Complementary Religious Experience | 113 |
Dialogue as a Means of Mission | 125 |
Comment | 132 |
A Critique of ChristianHindu Dialogue | 137 |
B Commitment and Dialogue | 156 |
The Evaluation of Other Faiths | 167 |
The Role of Anubhava | 284 |
F Advaita Vedanta | 291 |
G Saccidananda and Terms for Christ | 302 |
Further Towards an Indian Christological Basis for Dialogue | 314 |
J Conclusions | 335 |
The Future Dialogue | 349 |
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